Arnab linked Pulwama and Balakot to TRP gains

The chats have come as a startling twist to the entire TRP scam in which Republic TV has been named as one of the accused.

The screenshots of purported WhatsApp chats, which took place between Arnab Goswami and the arrested former CEO of TV ratings agency BARC, Partho Dasgupta, came out in public domain on Friday and created a storm.

The conversations revealed how the senior journalist probably had advance information about the Balakot air strikes in Pakistan. Three days before the IAF action on February 26, 2019, Arnab had told his friend Dasgupta about ‘something big will happen’.

The WhatsApp conversations are part of the Mumbai Police’s 3,600-page supplementary chargesheet which it has filed in the TRP scam.